URN.png Court Orders Closure of Bridge Academies in Uganda Dominic Ochola, Uganda Radio Network, Kampala, 4 November 2016 The High Court in Kampala has ruled in favour of a directive by the Ministry of Education to close down Bridge International Academies in Uganda. Lady Justice Patricia Basaza Wasswa in her ruling said that court has indeed established that Bridge is operating its academies in contravention of the law. Justice Basaza ruled that in the result of the Judicial Review Rules, 2009, Bridge's application failed and was dismissed with costs yet to be determined to the respondent. In letters dated April 6 and June 10 respectively, the Directorate of Education Standards headed by Dr. Abdallah Mutazindwa halted the expansion of Bridge schools arising from concern of legality, quality of infrastructure, teacher issues, methodology and curriculum. On July 25, Bridge filed an application to quash the decision issued on behalf of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports (Respondent) citing Section 36 (4) of the Education Act, 2008 directing closure of all the applicant's academies in Uganda. Civil Division of the High Court headed by Justice Basaza then issued an order prohibiting the Education Ministry from enforcing its decision and that of its agents from implementing the directive. Dr. Mutazindwa, the Director of Education Standards told Uganda Radio Network that the court ruling implies that effective immediately; Bridge International Academies are to remain closed until they certify all the required operating standards of education. However, Godwin Muhwezi, the Bridge Legal Officer in Uganda said they will appeal against the ruling. He challenges Mutazindwa to make consideration on what is important for the future of Ugandan children Muhwezi appeared adamant that Bridge International will continue to operate until December 6 when third term closes while they engage stakeholders on the best course of action to bring the controversies to an end. Bridge International is a profit-making chain of education service providers with 63 Pre-Primary and Primary schools in Uganda with an enrolment of 1,200 pupils and employing at least 800 workers. The World Bank, billionaire education promoters; Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are among the globe's investment kingpins behind Bridge International Academy's financing. From: <http://ugandaradionetwork.com/story/court-orders-closure-of-bridge-internat ional-academies-in-uganda> http://ugandaradionetwork.com/story/court-orders-closure-of-bridge-internati onal-academies-in-uganda __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14390 (20161104) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001201d236d3%242b8d0ff0%2482a72fd0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
